Richard Fuller – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Fuller on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to increase the role of the UK further education sector in strengthening vocational education in Nigeria.

Lynne Featherstone

DFID recognises the importance of vocational skills training for reducing poverty among young people in Nigeria, and is currently considering options on how best to support the sector to increase the economic opportunities available to marginalised groups of young men and women in six of the poorest states in Northern Nigeria.